"It's just amazing to have him home. We had given up hope and can't quite believe he's back. But for him, it's like he never went away, he's settled back in perfectly," said this pet dog's owner Kelly Twin.

It turned out that staff at RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) took Foster in their care after he was brought in by neighbours of a lady who had recently died. It is thought that the lady had owned Foster for several years, not knowing that he had been stolen during a break into a family home several years earlier.

He was reunited with the Twin family after staff scanned his microchip and discovered that he was actually chipped to another address and had been reported as stolen.